December 5, 2011 @ 12:00 am

The discovery of apparent fraud by Connecticut state employees in a federally funded disaster relief program is evidence of adequate safeguards, not lax oversight, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. With the disclosure Sunday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that “more than a few” state employees misrepresented their income to obtain […]

Sixty guns of various shapes, sizes and lethality were laid out on plastic folding tables, arranged by size and labeled numerically with masking tape. These were the result of a one-day gun buyback program offered by the New Haven Police Department Saturday. Guns collected at the New Haven event “The success of events like these […]

The state’s health insurance exchange, a key part of federal health reform, is intended to give individuals and small businesses more options for buying insurance. But for many people in Connecticut, the new marketplace might not bring affordable coverage options when it launches in 2014, according to a consultant to the board developing the exchange. […]

It’s never a good day for a public-employee union when any members are implicated in fraud, but Matt O’Connor of CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 did find some good news in the claim that some state employees appeared to have fraudulently obtained disaster aid. The fraud, after all, was discovered by other state employees. “We should be […]